Over 100 Years Ago, 123 Young Women Working In A Factory Never Came Home...

[one_voice]

I have a hard time watching this and not getting terribly angry. Those 123 young women and 23 men who died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire on March 25, 1911, deserve to be remembered. But we're watching it happen all over again in developing countries that supply Walmart, Gap, and other marketing and retail giants.

At 2:00, you'll see the cascading effects that the fire had on workers' rights and eliminating sweatshops in the United States. But watching it happen all over again in other parts of the world at 3:00 is heartbreaking. It was the same exact circumstances as the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, word-for-word. At 4:24, how do they calculate the “value” of a human life? And the images at 6:40 — really? All for a $26 pair of pants?

https://www.upworthy.com/over-100-years-ago-123-young-women-working-in-a-factory-never-came-home-it-changed-our-country?c=ufb3

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The video contains graphic images

it's 9 minutes but worth it.

[daleanime]

1. bookmarked

[jaysunb]

2. ditto k&r n/t

[Cha]

3. Thanks one_voice. :(

[Cleita]

4. K&R

[azurnoir]

5. Thank you

[freshwest]

6. We were taught all this back in the early sixties in public high school. Where did our history go?

I see no other way for the bosses to get away with this today. And media acts like these people don't exist. They were supported in news stories back then. The worker was respected.

Now we have become like the bosses in this world, no pity for what our fellow sojourners go through anymore. I came from a family that was union with some who only left to form their own businesses. It does not have be this way.